The Patriot Post® · Monday Opinion

Best of Right Opinion

• Jeff Jacoby: Clinton Tumbles Down the ‘Marriage Gap’
• Hans von Spakovsky: Obstructing Federal Immigration Enforcement Is Wrong
• George Will: Freedom of Speech Includes the Right to Remain Silent
• Burt Prelutsky: The Neutering of the American Male
• Tony Perkins: On Religious Freedom, the Sooners the Better

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Opinion in Brief

Jeff Jacoby: “[Hillary] Clinton’s problem with married white women had nothing to do with her sex, and everything to do with her being a liberal Democrat. Wedlock correlates strongly with more conservative political opinions; in Gallup’s words, ‘marital status remains one of the most reliable predictors of party identification.’ Americans who lean conservative or Republican — those who are older, white, and religious — are more likely to get married. At the same time, marriage and the experiences associated with it — parenthood, home ownership, the economics of supporting a family — have a well-known tendency to nudge adults to the right. It will hardly come as a bolt from the blue that spouses affect each other’s thinking and habits. Studies have long shown that women pay less attention to politics than men do. That helps explain why single women are less likely to register and vote — and why, when they marry, women are more likely to embrace their husband’s political perspective than the other way around. That doesn’t reflect patriarchal misogyny; it reflects the fact that bonds of love and marriage lead people to unite in other ways too.”